Guardian Careers – Finance Manager

About the job

THE CROWD

The Role:

The Crowd are working with a design-led architectural studio based in East London who is looking to hire a Finance Manager to join their collaborative and friendly team. The studio has won several high-profile awards for its outstanding projects in housing, public buildings, and education.

You will be joining a business whose senior team are committed to reviewing and looking for ways to improve, to have a more meaningful and positive impact on society. You will be a key member of the team, working closely with the senior management and directors to help monitor and drive the business’s financial performance.

This is a great opportunity for you to have input and be influential in business decisions. The ideal person for this role will have previous experience working in a similar role in an SME within the built environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing the sales and purchase ledger functions including managing sub-consultant payments
• Carrying out P&L and balance sheet reconciliations, including month-end processes
• Managing the accounts receivable function, ensuring the timely collection of debt
• Ensuring all transactions, revenue and expenditure, are properly accounted for in the correct periods and with accuracy
• Managing the company expenses and credit card accounts
• Monitoring practice bank accounts, managing income and expenditure, updating the cashflow schedule and reporting to the Directors as required
• Producing payroll to gross pay for supply to the external payroll provider (with a view to eventually bringing the payroll function in-house) and ensuring PAYE is calculated and submitted to HMRC on time
• Managing company pension, posting monthly contributions to provider, making adjustments as necessary and undertaking annual compliance review with provider
• Ensuring quarterly VAT calculations are submitted to HMRC in an accurate and timely manner
• Coordinating preparation of annual accounts and corporation tax with external accountants
• Liaising with the senior team and external consultants to coordinate annual R+D tax relief submission
• Reporting annually the practice’s Gender Pay Gap data
• Monitoring project profitability through the company’s project planning software including checking that all live projects have accurate and current information logged.
• Working with senior stakeholders on planning, forecasting and variance reporting, including putting together reports and visuals to aid business decision-making.
• Providing accurate and reliable monthly and ad hoc reporting to management in a way that non-financial people can relate to and understand eg project profitability, actual v budget
• Assisting with setting budget(s) for the year, in line with business strategy

Key Skills:

• Experience working in a similar role within an SME with experience in both management and financial accounting with a commercial outlook
• Part-qualified or fully qualified (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or similar)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including strong Excel skills and system oriented in your approach
• Xero and CMAP experience an advantage
• Ability to identify and implement process and system improvements
• Analytical, methodical and accurate with the ability to deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines
• Team player with good people management/communications skills and a “can do” attitude

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